Posted on 10/01/2010 6:59:45 PM PDT by SeattleBruce
...What reapportionment says about the future is perhaps less interesting than what it says about the present.
Red states are gaining population relative to blue states because of the divergence in policy. Jobs, and thus people, flock to red states because they are generally easier places to do business. If the states are, as Justice Brandeis posited, laboratories of democracy, then places such as New York, which will have lost sixteen electoral votes since 1960, and Massachusetts, which will have gone from fourteen to nine seats in those five decades, must be considered failed experiments....
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Good for CA...
I really hope the liberals continue to move out of CA!
It's true...
Everywhere I go people are bitching about the liberals leaving California and going to their states.
Please let this trend continue!!
For years I've been keep telling the liberals I run into here how nice places like AZ and TX CO are...They actually believe me, lol....
This efforts seems to have paid off..
I also strenuously object to the media forced color designations.
I meant the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, referred to in my town simply as the D & C.
Most of the oldsters who bought “camps” for year-round living when they were young have had to sell out due to the taxes. I live one house from a lake view and have an affordable (for almost anyone) house and low taxes. My next door neighbor with the lake view has double my taxes (lake view is built into the formula). Lake access (cross a highway to launch your boat) brings higher taxes, and lakeside living brings astronomical prices and taxes. My lake has a railroad running the whole length on my side, so many of the properties are cramped and have trains running by just feet from the door.
Clinton’s buddy Terry McAuliffe has (had?) a place on Skaneateles Lake. Skan. is nice to visit, but I like my lake better.
I meant the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, referred to in my town simply as the D & C.
Most of the oldsters who bought “camps” for year-round living when they were young have had to sell out due to the taxes. I live one house from a lake view and have an affordable (for almost anyone) house and low taxes. My next door neighbor with the lake view has double my taxes (lake view is built into the formula). Lake access (cross a highway to launch your boat) brings higher taxes, and lakeside living brings astronomical prices and taxes. My lake has a railroad running the whole length on my side, so many of the properties are cramped and have trains running by just feet from the door.
Clinton’s buddy Terry McAuliffe has (had?) a place on Skaneateles Lake. Skan. is nice to visit, but I like my lake better.
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